David_Gerard comments on Post ridiculous munchkin ideas! - LessWrong

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Comment author: David_Gerard 10 May 2013 12:50:19PM 6 points [-]

Never buy anything from Amazon without checking eBay first. I think every generic thing in the world is available on eBay, IME at about half the price.

(May not be worth it for books and other media. But I just bought a pile of stuff for moving house with, down to replacement light bulbs for when we take our expensive daylight CFLs with us. And it's always fun to just casually buy six rolls of packing tape and a 100-metre roll of bubble wrap, even when you have an actual reason to.)

Comment author: knb 10 May 2013 09:21:47PM 9 points [-]

I think every generic thing in the world is available on eBay, IME at about half the price.

If this is true, there's a huge amount of money to be made buying things on eBay and selling them on Amazon.

Comment author: Decius 11 May 2013 03:17:34AM 2 points [-]

Better would be to find good suppliers on eBay and drop-ship from Amazon.

Comment author: David_Gerard 12 May 2013 05:27:44PM 0 points [-]

Quite possibly, yes.

Comment author: AspiringRationalist 11 May 2013 04:50:11PM 1 point [-]

For books, use bigwords.com; it searches a bunch of book sellers and finds the cheapest price for the book(s) you're looking for. I got most of my college textbooks that way.

Comment author: Locaha 26 May 2013 08:32:33AM 2 points [-]

For books, check the internet for free pirated book.

This isn't meant to be moral. We are talking munchkin here.

Comment author: CCC 26 May 2013 02:33:22PM 0 points [-]

If you're looking for free and legal, but not recent, I'd suggest looking into Project Gutenberg.

Comment author: luminosity 21 May 2013 11:21:39AM 1 point [-]

For Australians, Booko provides search for book sellers including shipping costs.